Pandemics and Emerging Infectious Diseases

Infectious disease pandemics are a rising threat in our globalizing world. This agenda-setting collection provides international analysis of the pressing sociological concerns they confront us with, from cross-border coordination of public health governance to geopolitical issues of development and social equity. Focuses on vital sociological issues raised by resurgent disease pandemics Detailed analysis of case studies as well as broader, systemic factors Contributions from North America, Europe and Asia provide international perspective Bold, agenda-setting treatment of a high-profile topic

Infectious disease pandemics are a rising threat in our globalizing world. This agenda-setting collection provides international analysis of the pressing sociological concerns they confront us with, from cross-border coordination of public health governance to geopolitical issues of development and social equity.* Focuses on vital sociological issues raised by resurgent disease pandemics* Detailed analysis of case studies as well as broader, systemic factors* Contributions from North America, Europe and Asia provide international perspective* Bold, agenda-setting treatment of a high-profile topic

Notes on contributors vii1 Introduction: why a sociology of pandemics? 1Robert Dingwall, Lily M. Hoffman and Karen Staniland2 Public health intelligence and the detection of potentialpandemics 8Martin French and Eric Mykhalovskiy3 West Nile virus: the production of a public health pandemic21Maya K. Gislason4 Who's worried about turkeys? How 'organisationalsilos' impede zoonotic disease surveillance 33Colin Jerolmack5 How did international agencies perceive the avian infl uenzaproblem? The adoption and manufacture of the 'One World, OneHealth' framework 46Yu-Ju Chien6 Global health risks and cosmopolitisation: from emergence tointerference 59Muriel Figuié7 The politics of securing borders and the identities of disease72Rosemary C.R. Taylor8 The return of the city-state: urban governance and the NewYork City H1N1 pandemic 85Lily M. Hoffman9 The making of public health emergencies: West Nile virus inNew York City 98Sabrina McCormick and Kristoffer Whitney10 Using model-based evidence in the governance of pandemics110Erika Mansnerus11 Exploring the ambiguous consensus on public-privatepartnerships in collective risk preparation 122Véronique Steyer and Claude Gilbert12 'If you have a soul, you will volunteer at once':gendered expectations of duty to care during pandemics 134Rebecca Godderis and Kate Rossiter13 Flu frames 139Karen Staniland and Greg Smith14 Attention to the media and worry over becoming infected: thecase of the Swine Flu (H1N1) Epidemic of 2009 153Gustavo S. Mesch, Kent P. Schwirian and Tanya Kolobov15 Why the French did not choose to panic: a dynamic analysis ofthe public response to the infl uenza pandemic 160William Sherlaw and Jocelyn RaudeIndex 172